page_title: Vincenzo Lunardi
section_title: 29 June 1785
hierarchical_section_title: Vincenzo Lunardi / Ascents in England / 29 June 1785
caption_attribution_description: English: Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a Balloon oil on copper 48.3 x 35.6 cm 1785
context_page_description: Vicenzo Lunardi was a pioneering Italian aeronaut, born in Lucca.
context_section_description: Lunardi's next flight was made nearly a year later on 29 June 1785 and left from St George's Fields on the south side of the Thames. Lunardi and Biggin, and two invitees, Letitia Ann Sage and Colonel Hastings, were supposed to make the flight, but the balloon wouldn't take off because of the weight. Lunardi and Hastings stepped down, and the balloon took off with Biggin and Mrs. Sage, making her the first English female in flight. 90 minutes later, they landed near Harrow, where the two aeronauts had to be rescued by a group of boys from Harrow School from the angry farmer whose crops were damaged.
  Lunardi then made flights in Liverpool on 20 July and 9 August that year before moving onto Glasgow and Edinburgh.
caption: Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his assistant George Biggin, and Mrs. Letitia Anne Sage, in a balloon (John Francis Rigaud, 1785)
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